11. How does the efficiency of Renaissance chargers compare to other chargers?

"In most cases the charger uses no more than 6-10% more
energy than conventional chargers. We are confident that the industry
will agree that a small increase in electrical power consumption is a
small price to pay for the typically incredible increases in battery
capacity, not to mention the significant savings because of lower
battery replacement costs...."

Never mind, the radiant battery charger can be very very useful. It has
more value than the 'usual' battery charger, because one can
dramatically extend the life of batteries. One day I will buy the Solar
Kick battery charger:

Indeed I wouldn't suspect the chargers from r-charge to exhibit overunity, as it is simply "charging-a-capacitor-then-dumping-the-charge-on-the-battery" invention implemented. However, as you say, it does do cool stuff with the batteries, I've been able to recover a previously "dead" battery. First charge of battery I managed to run 100W load for about 30 minutes, after second charge the same load ran 3 hours. Didn't test more there though.

The interesting thing is what he (Bedini) talks about in the second DVD from the series ( http://www.energyfromthevacuum.com [www.energyfromthevacuum.com]), which more or less is the back-EMF which in most circuits is shorted out with a cap or a diode (relays etc.). One of his devices used only the back-emf without any capacitor reservoir, which I found very interesting. This circuit is not publicly available to this date, at least I haven't found anything on it yet.

Via News-PESWiki.com [peswiki.com]: Sanford Staab gives his review of the recent conference in Sandpoint,
Idaho announcing the new "Tesla Switch" which is a power amplifier for
solar panels, that lets you improve the efficiency of your solar panels
by up to 2x; as well as the other inventions of John Bedini, including
the 3- and 10-pole monopole motors. (Sanford's Blog [sanfords.spaces.live.com]; Apr. 14,
2010)